Immigration

A motivating cause that attracts people to move or migrate to another region or country

• Push Factor

• Pull Factor

A motivating cause that forces a person to leave his or her homeland

• Push Factor

• Pull Factor

The immigration station where many ASIAN immigrants arrived in San Francisco, California

• Ellis Island

• Angel Island

• Tammany Hall

• Hull Island

The immigration station where many EUROPEAN immigrants arrived in New York City

• Ellis Island

• Angel Island

• Tammany Hall

• Hull Island

Discrimination faced by new immigrants is called...

• Ethnocentrism

• Nativism

• Racism

• Xenophobia

Fear of foreigners or immigrants

• Ethnocentrism

• Nativism

• Racism

• Xenophobia

The theory that new immigrants blend into American culture

• Assimilation (Melting Pot)

• Cultural Pluralism

  (Mixing Bowl)

• Nativism

• Xenophobia

The theory that new immigrants retain elements of their old culture while living alongside other Americans

• Assimilation (Melting Pot)

• Cultural Pluralism

  (Mixing Bowl)

• Nativism

• Xenophobia

Once arriving at Angel or Ellis Island, immigrants would go through...

• Medical Checks

• Background (Legal Checks)

• Pay an entrance tax for a visa

• They were let through without inspection

This Nativist law banned Chinese settlement in America between 1882 and 1943

• Chinese Exclusion Act

• Gentlemen's Agreement

• 1921 Quota Act

• Pogroms